This chapter examines the dearth of democratic communication concerning European integration, focusing on Italy’s audio-visual landscape of the 1950s. It explores the historical peculiarities of one of the least pluralistic broadcasting systems in postwar Western Europe and its implications for Italy’s mass media coverage of European integration. Finally, it broadens the picture of Italian communications, highlighting other disparities between democratic expectations and reality in the way RAI-television both hushed up the opinions of those against the government line, and sought to make European integration attractive for large sections of society. The analysis draws on some newly available audio-visual sources of the 1950s, including newsreels, short films, documentary films and the first RAI-TV programmes.

Images and Sounds of the “Democratic Deficit”: The Italian Mass Media and European Integration in the 1950s / D'Ottavio, Gabriele. - (2024), pp. 80-100. [10.3167/9781805395423]

Images and Sounds of the “Democratic Deficit”: The Italian Mass Media and European Integration in the 1950s

D'Ottavio, Gabriele
2024-01-01

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This chapter examines the dearth of democratic communication concerning European integration, focusing on Italy’s audio-visual landscape of the 1950s. It explores the historical peculiarities of one of the least pluralistic broadcasting systems in postwar Western Europe and its implications for Italy’s mass media coverage of European integration. Finally, it broadens the picture of Italian communications, highlighting other disparities between democratic expectations and reality in the way RAI-television both hushed up the opinions of those against the government line, and sought to make European integration attractive for large sections of society. The analysis draws on some newly available audio-visual sources of the 1950s, including newsreels, short films, documentary films and the first RAI-TV programmes.
2024
A More Democratic Community The Place of Democracy in the History of European Integration
New York-Oxford
Berghahn
9781805395423
978-1-80539-544-7
978-1-80539-543-0
D'Ottavio, Gabriele
Images and Sounds of the “Democratic Deficit”: The Italian Mass Media and European Integration in the 1950s / D'Ottavio, Gabriele. - (2024), pp. 80-100. [10.3167/9781805395423]
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